THE 
PHILOSOPHY OF WAR 

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HARRIETTE AUGUSTA CURTISS, F. O. 15 

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THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR 

PART I. 

THE WAR 

"The world is a field of battle where liberty strug- 
gles with inertia by the opposition of active force." — 
Transcendental Magic, Levi, 31. 

"It is only by the attractive force of the contrasts 
that the two opposites — Spirit and Matter — can be ce- 
mented together on Earth, and, smelted in the fire of 
self-conscious experience and suffering, find themselves 
wedded in Eternity. This will reveal the meaning of 
many hitherto incomprehensible allegories, foolishly called 
'fables.' " — The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, Vol. II, 108. 

The chaotic conditions now existing in Eu- whu 
rope have elicited many questions from our w ar > 
students, especially those in European coun- 
tries, as to the mystical meaning and the phi- 
losophical reason for the apparent necessity 
for war, and why it is permitted by a God of 
Love and Wisdom. In other words, What is 
the reason for and the place of war in the 
Cosmic Scheme or the Grand Plan of the 
Universe? This lesson is an attempt, in a 
few paragraphs, to outline and make com- 
prehensible a stupendous subject whose roots 
go deep into the beginnings of manifestation. 

For the War is an expression of cosmic law. 
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It is an axiom in occult philosophy that 
Reaimes there can be no manifestation without dual- 
ity, no shadow without its Reality. In philos- 
ophy everything that manifests descends from 
above, its expression on earth being but the 
shadow or reflection of a Reality in the 
higher realms. u St. Paul . . . called 
our World, 'the enigmatical mirror of pure 
truth,' and St. Gregory of Nazianzen corro- 
borated Hermes by stating that: 'Things 
visible are but the shadow and delineation of 
things that we cannot see.' . . . 'All 
that is on earth, saith the Lord (Ormazd), 
is the shadow of something that is in the 
superior spheres.' . . . It is an eternal 
combination, and images are repeated from 
the higher rung of the Ladder of Being 
down to the lower . . . the lower 'mir- 
ror' disfiguring the image of the superior 
'mirror.' "* And the Zohar also holds strong- 
ly to the idea that everything manifested in 
the Universe is the shadow of the Eternal 
Light or Deity, separated by the prism of 
Matter into its seven rays, each with its dual 
principle of light and shadow. Of what, then, 
is war on earth the shadow? 



'The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, Vol. II, 280, 

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The first emanation from the Absolute 
coming into manifestation necessarily had its 0tehI 
positive and negative aspects or poles, Spirit Urge 
and Substance. From the very dawn of the 
going forth of the Manifested from out the 
bosom of the Unmanifested, the state of per- 
fect equilibrium was disturbed and the 
mighty urge toward union and a restoration 
of the primordial equilibrium came into man- 
ifestation. It is this urge toward the resto- 
ration of the Projected to its Source, the call 
of the Spirit to Matter, the Father to the 
Son, the Heavenly Man to the human, the 
Higher Self to the lower personality, that is 
the cause back of all war, all desire, hence 
back of all evolution. For only in a union 
with its Cause can the Cycle of Necessity be 
ended, the desire be satisfied and become one 
with the Will of the Father, the War ended 
and the evolution be completed. 

But the impelling Force which caused the 
Outgoing or downward arc of the projection 
into Manifestation resists the Indrawing 
power or upward arc of Realization which 
is necessary to complete the At-one-ment. 
This resistance to the uplifting, dematerial- 
izing and indrawing force constitutes and is 

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the basic principle back of all reflections or 
Iner phases of the War, In the physical world this 
resistance is expressed as the war between 
Spirit and Matter; the resistance due to the 
density and inertia of Matter to the unfold- 
ment and expression of the Spirit which, with 
the descent of the Light, clothed itself in 
Matter that it might evolve up through it 
and by so doing spiritualize it and return it 
to its primordial state. It is the inability of 
/ the lower vibrations of Matter to respond to 
the higher vibrations of Spirit until, through 
the subliming and etherializing process which 
results from the friction thus engendered, 
Matter becomes finer and more plastic and 
thus more responsive to the expressions of 
Spirit. Hence in all cosmogonies, " 'There 
were many Wars/ all referring to the strug- 
gles of adjustment, spiritual, cosmical and 
astronomical, but chiefly to the mysteries of 
the evolution of man, as he is now." 2 The 
point we wish to emphasize is that these 
"wars" are all necessary factors in the ad- 
justment which must occur ere the close of 
any and every cycle. 

"There are accounts of three distinct Wars 



-•S. D., Vol. T, 215. 



Heaven 



to be traced in almost every cosmogony. The 
first War happened in the night of time, be- War 
tween the Gods and the (A) -suras, and 
lasted for a period of one Divine Year." 3 
Thus the War began with the "War in 
Heaven" or the resistance of certain expres- 
sions of the Godhead to carrying out the 
Divine Will; again the resistance of the lower 
to the higher Will. This is far more than 
merely an expression of the Sun-Myth or the 
personification of the forces of nature, the 
war between Light and Darkness. For the 
various versions of the Sun-Myth are but al- 
legories expressing the cosmic principle of 
the resistance of Matter to the expression of 
Spirit, whether it be represented by the Chris- 
tian Michael, the Angel of the Sun, slaying 
the Apocalyptic Dragon; Horus, the Egyp- 
tian Sun-god, slaying Typhon, the Dragon 
Apophis; Hercules strangling the Python in 
his cradle or "Phoibos-Apollo, the Greek 
Helios, the Sun, 'the Light and Life of the 
World' . . . who at the moment of his 
birth asks for his bow to kill Python, the 
Demon Dragon." They all symbolize the 
eternal struggle for light, progress and evo- 

3 Ibid, Vol. I, 451. A Divine Year is 360 times a Day of 
Brahm (4,320,000,000 years). 

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Man 



lution which constitutes the war between the 
Light of Wisdom and the Darkness of Ignor- 
ance; between unselfishness and selfishness; 
the good of the whole and the ambitions of 
the few; between civilization and barbarism; 
between the Angel of Peace and the Dragon 
of Material Force embodied in Militarism; 
between Right and might, etc. 

The second great phase of the War, as 
reflected in humanity, occurred at the creation 
of man, when the resistance set up by the de- 
sires of the lower to the Will of the Higher 
was exemplified in the struggle which took 
place between the Lunar and Solar Fathers. 
Occult philosophy teaches that the physical 
body or animal man was projected as a 
"shadow" or was "created" by the Hier- 
archy of the Lunar Fathers. 4 But the 
"man" so created was but a human animal 
without intellect or the spark of self-con- 
sciousness; he had not yet become "a living 
soul." As soon as the human animal had 
been perfected the Hierarchy of the Solar 
Fathers — called "Sons of Mind" — projected 
into that animal form a "Ray" of themselves 
which became the Divine Spark, the individ- 

4 For The Origin of Man, see chapter xvn in The Voice of 
Isis, Curtiss. 

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ual, immortal Spiritual Ego or, as the Bible 
puts it, they: "Breathed into his nostrils the °f 8 
Breath of Life (breath always being a sym- Suffer 
bol of Spirit) ; and (only then) man became " 
a living (immortal) Soul." 5 Man was thus 
the product of two distinct lines of creative 
forces, a semi-terrestrial and a Divine; just 
as a mother brings forth (creates) the terres- 
trial body of her child, yet has nothing to 
do with making it "a living Soul." With the 
incarnating of the Spirit and the lighting of 
the spark of self-consciousness in man this 
second phase of the War began, i. e., the ef- 
fort of the spiritual Solar Fathers, through 
the incarnated Ray or Real Man, to control 
and guide the animal man, to the end that he 
might respond to the higher law or Divine 
Will. The control of the Lunar Fathers had 
been through instinct and did not admit of 
the power of choice, while the control of the 
Solar Fathers was and is through the free- 
will choice of man, even though through his 
refusal to choose the higher guidance he cre- 
ates the suffering by which he learns the wis- 
dom of that choice. The struggle was brought 
about, therefore, by the resistance offered by 



^Genesis n, 7. 



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the animal instincts and the desires of the 
senses to voluntarily submitting to the uplift- 
ing and spiritualizing control of the Divine 
Will of the Real Man or Father-in-heaven. 
Origin In the mental world, the War manifests 
as the resistance of the Intellect to the 
promptings of Intuition; the temporary re- 
fusal of the Head to obey the promptings of 
the Heart Until the self-conscious stage of 
man was reached the resistance was more or 
less passive or the resistance of inertia, but 
with the dawn of free-will and the power of 
choice the resistance became active and the 
element of antagonism was added to the 
inertia. Although the light of self-conscious- 
ness and the development of the Intellect was 
the direct result of the incarnating Spirit 
gradually evolving an adequate instrument by 
means of which it could relate itself in con- 
ciousness to the conditions of material mani- 
festation and through which it could express 
itself in such conditions, as soon as the spark 
of Divine Mind burst into the flame of self- 
consciousness, the human animal thus awak- 
ened to itself — but as yet unable to recognize 
^ its Divine Parent — placed I ntellect upon the 
throne as the source of its highest guidance. 

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St. Paul refers to this phase of the War 
when he says : "When I would do good (i.e., Qjffice 
follow the Intuitions from the Higher Self), of the 
behold evil (or the desires of the lower man) J 
is present with me." It is the War between 
Higher and Lower Manas or the resistance 
of the human or intellectual consciousness to 
the Illumination and guidance of the Divine. 
And this phase of the War will continue in 
man until, by the subliming and spiritualizing 
process due to the friction (suffering) en- 
gendered, the Intellect will admit that it is 
but the creature and instrument, and must 
become the willing servant, of the Real Man 
or Higher Self, to translate the Inspiration 
of the Spirit into terms of human conscious- 
ness which shall enable the human personal- 
ity consciously to follow the Divine Guid- 
ance. Of all creatures man alone has within 
him both the Higher Mind — the embodied 
Ray from the Divine Mind — and also the 
Lower Mind which is synthesized by the ani- 
mal soul and has its highest expression 
■ through Intellect. Hence man is the Arbitra- 
tor, for he can reach up and comprehend 
God and also reach down into the animal 
consciousness and comprehend the resistance 

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The 
Curst 







of matter and the views and arguments of the 
Lower Mind. 

By the creative power of his thought he 
leaves the impress of his stage of evolution 
upon all the lower kingdoms. For jyst as 
the War in heaven was reflected in man, so 
has man reflected the War that is going on 
within himself, upon the lower kingdoms. 
So it is through man, who has stamped the 
impress of his imperfections — the incomplete 
stage of his spiritual unfoldment — upon ani- 
mal, vegetable and mineral as antagonism, 
hatred, disease and death, that the curse has 
been fulfilled: "Cursed is the ground for 
thy sake, . . . thorns also and thistles 
shall it bring forth to thee ; ... in the 
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
thou return unto the ground (his Source) ; 
for out of it wast thou t^ken; for dust thou 
art and unto dust shalt thou return." 6 Look- 
ing at the War as symbolized by this so- 
called curse, with the eye of Spirit we see 
that this curse contains a prophecy of the end 
of the War } i. e. } the ultimate victory of the 
Spiritual over the mere animal man. Only 
that which is made of cosmic dust or Matter 



^Genesis II, 7. 



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can be cursed by man's disobedience to the ^ 
Divine Will. In other words only that which 'Promise 
man received from his Lunar ancestors — his 
physical, astral and desire bodies — can be 
said to be made of "dust" or the unredeemed 
matter of former world-periods 7 which 
formed the chaos into which the spiritual 
Light descended at the beginning of this cos- 
mic Day of Evolution. Hence the so-called 
curse may be turned into a blessing, since it 
assures us that ultimately all that is dust 
(matter) will be returned to its Source at the 
end of the War, but with the results of 
man's higher spiritual understanding of the 
great mystery of transmutation or redemp- 
tion impressed upon it. The curse also tells 
us in a few cryptic words that the cause of 
the W ar is the effort of Spirit to redeem 
(literally "buy back" or return to its Source) 
Matter. 

Perhaps the position of man in this great 
struggle can be better comprehended if we 
consider an earthly simile. In an earthly 
war only one who has had experience on both 
sides or who is so gifted that he can enter 
fully and understandingly into the point of 



7 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapter XXIV. 

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A rbitra 
tor 



Man view of both combatants, is fitted to become 
an Arbitrator. In the mighty war between 
Spirit and Matter man is such an Arbitra- 
tor; for he can, if he will, reach up into the 
Spiritual Consciousness and comprehend the 
Divine Plan of Redemption, the power of 
the Spiritual Consciousness to uplift the ani- 
mal consciousness; can grasp the reality of 
the transmuting power of Divine Love, and 
understand that only through the reign of 
the Heart can there be peace; for the Intel- 
lect, when its dominance is insisted upon, can 
only prolong the War. He can also make 
his Intellect a powerful servant which can 
descend into the most microscopic details of 
Matter and understand the point of view and 
the cause for which the lower man fights. 
Through the Light of Intuition he can ascend 
into the higher realms and grasp the macro- 
cosmic details of the Grand Plan and realize 
that through Intellect alone he can never cor- 
relate with the Spirit of that which the In- 
tellect has discovered. Thus from his posi- 
tion as Arbitrator he can not only look down 
into the suffering, misery and crime created 
by the resistance of the selfish animal desires, 
but can also see how only through the spirit 

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of Love and Harmony and through Obe- 
dience to the guidance of the Spirit can mart Removed 
and nature be redeemed and the curse be re- 
moved. The victories of the lower mind are 
precipitated in its home-world, the physical 
consciousness, as mental and emotional 
storms, while the victories of the Higher 
Mind are accumulated in its home-world as 
so much added power of the Spirit to mani- 
fest on earth both for the individual, the 
Race and the planet. 

The War between the Higher and Lower 
Selves therefore began when the child of the 
Lunar Fathers became also the child of the 
Solar Fathers. Hence we find throughout 
all myth and allegory the frequent reference 
to wars between the Sun-gods and the Moon- 
gods or between the Priests of the Sun and 
the Priests of the Moon. And in the early 
races, when the Sun-gods " walked and talked 
with men," that is, when through their Divine 
Incarnations as great Spiritual Teachers, the 
Sun-gods taught the intellectually infant hu- 
manity the principles of all arts, sciences and 
philosophies — many of which are today tem- 
porarily lost because of the present wave of 
materialism — the great mass of the Race was 

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unable to respond to that higher guidance 
except for a short time, and there arose a 
division into two groups, the smaller of 
which still followed the Divine Teachers, 
and the larger which followed the call of 
sense gratification and selfishness represented 
by the Priests of the Moon-god. As Eliphas 
Levi says: "Men grew weary of the light, 
took refuge in the shadow of bodily sub- 
stance ; the dream of the void, which is filled 
by God, soon appeared to be greater than 
God himself in their eyes and thus Hell was 
created." 

The third great phase of the War there- 
Ravana f ore manifested on earth in the terrible strug- 
gle which took place at the close of the 
Fourth or Atlantean Race between Rama, 
the first of the Divine Dynasty or Solar Kings 
of the early Aryan Race, and Ravana, the 
leader of the scorcery-working Atlanteans. 
As The Secret Doctrine tells us 8 : "With the 
Fifth, our own Race, the Lunar-solar wor- 
ship divided the nations into distinct, antago- 
nistic camps. It led to the events described 
eons later in the Mahabharatan War." 9 
Whether we take this in its historical aspect 

8 5. £>., Vol. I, 426. 

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<^iCoses 



or as a legendary reference to the escape of 
the Aryans from Atlantis ; as Moses leading 
the Children of Israel out of Egypt; as the 
escape of the higher faculties from the bond- 
age of the senses, or purely as an allegorical 
expression of the Sun-Myth, in each instance 
we have a leader who represents the Divine 
Dynasty or Light, Progress and Evolution — 
the upward and indrawing power which is the 
cause of all evolution, civilization, progress 
— and who always leads his followers in tri- 
umph over the hosts of opposition, which are 
inevitably swallowed up in the sea. In the 
Bible account this leader is called Moses, the 
Law-giver, while in the individual those fac- 
ulties which choose to follow the Divine Law 
become the u chosen people. " By following 
the Divine Guidance they are led out of the 
bondage of the senses and escape from the 
power of King Desire, 10 represented by 
Pharaoh. But King Desire is loath to let 
them escape him and pursues after them, 

9 "This served as a prototype . . . for the Western na- 
tions to build their War of the Titans upon. . . . The War 
of the Titans is but a legendary and deified copy of the real war 
that took place. . . . It is the record of the terrible strife 
between the 'Sons of God* and the 'Sons of Shadow' of the 
Fourth and Fifth Races. It is on these two events . . . 
that every subsequent national tradition on the subject has been 
&ui1t."— S. D., Vol. II, 525. 

a0 See lesson on King Desire, Curtiss. Sent free on request. 

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Win 



Who only to be swallowed up in the waters of 
the Great Sea, even as the hosts of 
Ravana were swallowed up by the sinking of 
Atlantis. Therefore in all wars, on every 
plane of manifestation, the forces which rep- 
resent the Sun-god; which fight for progress, 
enlightenment, civilization, the Brotherhood 
of Man and of Nations; which truly fight 
on the side of St. George against the Dragon, 
must ultimately win, for they become chan- 
nels through which the constructive, uplift- 
ing and spiritualizing currents of the Cosmic 
Forces can find expression and manifest on 
earth. 

As we have already said, before any cycle 
can close and the circle return to its primor- 
dial state of equilibrium, everything that per- 
sistently stands in the way and prevents the 
manifestation of Divine Will, or the Ideal 
of that particular cycle; everything that re- 
sists the indrawal and union; that refuses to 
respond to the higher vibration or key-note 
of that cycle, in other words which refuses 
to be redeemed, must be wiped out of the 
path of that closing cycle and make way for 
the manifestation of the new. Therefore 
there must be a great adjustment at the close 

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of every cycle, whether it be of Race, sub- 
race, nation or individual. If the cycle is suf- °f* in 
ficiently advanced to permit the adjustment ^ 
to be made by responding to the Law of 
Harmony expressed through Love, Toler- 
ance, Brotherhood and Unselfishness, wheth- 
er of individuals, nations or Races, then 
there need be no war, for the resistance has 
been overcome. But if the resistance to the 
Divine has built up such a mass of inharmony 
(evil) that the spiritual force of that cycle 
is not sufficient to redeem it, then the adjust- 
ment must come as a physical precipitation of 
the stored up inharmony, through the avenue 
o7 physical conflict or war; just as a cloud 
which is so saturated with moisture that the 
sun cannot absorb (redeem) it must be preci- 
pitated as rain, hail or snow ere the light of 
the sun can manifest on earth. 

In the physical body the War is expressed 
through certain storms of bodily inharmony, 
illness or disaster which sweep over those 
who are endeavoring to follow the Higher 
Guidance and striving to "live the life." 
When the ideal of a higher life is set up by 
the consciousness, it sounds a new and higher 
key-note throughout the body. Those atoms 

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in the 
Body 



The which can respond answer the call and follow 
War the new Law-giver and are led out of bond- 
age into the freedom of a new cycle or expres- 
sion of Life. While in those atoms which 
belong wholly to the old dispensation, which 
have fulfilled their mission and are not suf- 
ficiently evolved to take on the higher vibra- 
tion and enter the new cycle, the resistance 
to the higher call is so great that it brings 
on the War in which they are vanquished 
and sloughed out of the body through a 
cleansing cataclysm of illness which, while it 
leaves the body temporarily devastated and 
weak, has nevertheless cleared the field of 
opposition and prepared for the manifesta- 
tion of a higher expression of Life. 

Strife and war among nations are simply 
evidences of inharmony and sickness in the 
body of humanity; an effort of the body pol- 
itic to slough out those atoms which refuse 
to respond to the higher key-note of civiliza- 
tion that is struck by the more advanced con- 
ceptions of Harmony, Brotherhood and Co- 
operation among nations. 11 War may be 



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"The atoms thus sloughed out are not the individual lives 
sacrificed in war, but are the false ideals of selfish isolation and 
individual aggrandizement regardless of others, that obstruct the 
upward evolution of humanity as a whole. 

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; likened to the cruel lancet of the surgeon 
which opens a festering boil. It causes tern- m timate 

\ porary suffering and bloodshed, but it per- v^orv 
mits the escape of the mass of inharmony 
and corruption which, if retained, would 
poison the entire body. And no real healing x/ 
can take place until the focus of infection is 
utterly wiped out. 

In the daily battles for poise, control and 
harmony which the individual begins con- 
sciously to fight as soon as he endeavors to 
follow a higher ideal, he may possibly find 

\ himself worsted in some of the skirmishes of 
the early stages, and evil and inharmony may 
accumulate until it can no longer be held 
back and must find physical expression — for 
it is a well known principle of psychology 
that thoughts express themselves through 
their creators in terms of action, unless coun- 
teracted by opposite thoughts of greater 
power — but no matter how many skirmishes 

J are lost, if he persistently follows the Light 
of his highest Ideal, be it ever so primitive to 
others, it will lead him step by step to ulti- 
mate victory. If he finds himself facing such 
an outbreak, it means that he has created 

I more inharmony or evil than his present stage 

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of spiritual unfoldment is able to transmute, 
hence the precipitation. 

In the mental world the outlet will be 
Control found through the emotions, The expres- 
sion of these emotions becomes a storm which 
° n sweeps away the control of those who open 
the door of their minds through irritation, 
impatience, anger, jealousy, envy, animal de- 
sires, etc., and leaves them devastated, yet 
relieved and ready, in the next time of trial, 
for an encounter which shall be more suc- 
cessful, in proportion to the effort made to 
conquer in the past. This, however, should 
not be made an excuse for giving way to emo- 
tional excitement of any kind, for a strong 
effort should always be made for control and 
peace, i. e., to transmute inharmony and turn 
its perverted forces into constructive and use- 
ful channels. But if a storm should gather 
and burst, be ready to set a higher standard 
and a greater degree of achievement in the 
period of reconstruction. 

The War is also reflected in the terrible 
struggles through which the candidate for 
Mastery must pass during his Initiation; the 
struggle of The Christ within to slay the 
dragon of self; the Guardian Angel to slay 

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the Dweller on the Threshold. It is also 
exemplified in the resistance of humanity to h<u 
new or higher spiritual teachings ; the misun- ^ eli , gi ° n 

* .. ° \ . ° - Failed ? 

derstanding, misrepresentation, condemna- 
tion, slander, persecution, final crucifixion but 
ultimate triumph , through which every Light- 
bearer who comes to humanity has to pass. 

From the principles outlined above it will 
be seen that the wars among nations which 
make for enlightenment, civilization, free- 
dom, the independence of each nation and 
the general advance of mankind, are not evi- 
dences of the failure of civilization or the 
failure of the particular religion which pre- 
vails at the time. They are but skirmishes 
in the War; expressions of the Cosmic Law 
of adjustment called Karma, by which that 
which is created by mankind must be faced 
and redeemed; that which is sown must be 
reaped. There must be periodic manifesta- 
tions of the War as long as Matter resists 
Spirit; as long as barbarism resists civiliza- 
tion; civilization resists the Brotherhood of 
Nations; industry resists co-operation; mate- 
rialism resists altriusm and idealism, in short, 
as long as any phase of manifestation resists 
the call of the Divine. But the conflicts should 
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grow fewer and fewer and the periods of 
*cbe peace be more and more prolonged in each 
Lesson succeeding upward cycle, until the Golden 
Age of the Seventh Great Race of man 12 is 
reached; until we return again to the rule of 
the Divine Kings — the "Sons of God" as the 
Bible calls them — among men, not as parents 
ruling over children, as in the beginning, but 
as Elder Brothers or Senior Partners whose 
experience and wisdom we gladly accept and 
follow. 

The great lesson to be learned from the 
War is that it is a very real and personal 
issue with each awakened Soul who has 
awakened to the call of the Divine and 
donned the armour of The Christ and be- 
come a Soldier of the Cross. Each Soul is 
judged at the close of each life-cycle by the 
sum total of how much it has overcome, how 
much of the lower self it has illumined by the 
higher spiritual consciousness. And strange 
as it may seem to some, evolution in man is 
gauged by how successfully he has fulfilled 
his mission as Arbitrator between Spirit and 
matter, between the higher kingdoms and 
the lower, giving to each its rightful place 

12 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapter XV. 

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while he himself stands calm and unmoved 
in the midst of the War, confidently know- 
ing that back of all the turmoil, inharmony 
and strife are "the everlasting arms" of Di- 
vine Love and that the true Peace is ever hov- 
ering, like the Breath of God, over the seem- 
ing chaos. 

It is man, therefore, responding of his 
own free-will to the guidance of the Divine, Man 
who must bring about "Peace on earth, good ^ cem . 
will toward men," and not the dictates of an «■ 
arbitrary Being who imposes his Will upon 
a helpless humanity. Hence there is not a 
single man or woman who cannot be an ac- 
tive factor in bringing the Golden Age of 
Love, Peace, Harmony and Brotherhood 
into manifestation the sooner, through the 
controlling of thoughts, words and emotions, 
and by overcoming his or her resistance, and 
responding more and more understandingly 
and gladly, to the upward urge of the Divine. 

Written September 30, 191 4. 




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THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR 

PART II. 

THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 

"To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they 
may hear? behold, their ear is uncircurncised, and they 
cannot harken: behold the word of the Tord is unto them 
a reproach; they have no delight in it." — Jeremiah, VI, 10. 

"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out 
of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the 
beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For 
they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go 
forth unto the kings of the whole earth and of the whole 
world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of 
God Almighty. . . . And he gathered them together 
into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." — 
Revelation, XVI, 13-16. 

The literal meaning of Armageddon is 
"on the heights" or "on high," and in this 
Ho** sense it is used to designate the invisible re- 
alms of the astral-plane. The hosts which 
are gathered to this great battle are the hosts 
of the accumulated thought-forms of lust, 
greed, envy, hate, selfishness and unbrother- 
liness engendered by the wrong thinking of 
humanity from the beginning, as well as the 
results of their evil words and deeds, all of 

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which are ever seeking expression through 
their creators. Jeremiah specifically refers to <>««* 
these forces as causes when he says: "Hear, 
O earth : behold, I will bring evil upon this 
people, even the fruit of their thoughts, be- 
cause they have not hearkened unto my 
words, nor my law, but rejected it," 1 During 
this battle all the stored up evil must have a 
focus through which it can pour itself out 
upon the lowest or physical-plane where its 
precipitation will end the cycle of its mani- 
festation, adjust the Karma and permit the 
good aspect of the forces involved to be ex- 
tracted, just as ore is crushed or melted that 
the gold may be extracted. Hence, while 
many are referring to the present European 
conflict as Armageddon, the meaning of the 
word shows that the present war is but one 
reflection or outpouring on earth of the real 
battle that has been raging in the higher 
realms. 

These forces have accumulated because, 
during the childhood of the Race the Mas- 
ters of Wisdom and the Rulers of the sub- 
races have held them back until the Race 
grew strong enough to bear them upon its 

1 Jeremiah, VI, 19. 

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own shoulders ; grew up as it were. But the 
closing Race has now grown up. The cycle is closing 
Cycles and the time for the adjustment is at hand. 
"Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord 
(Law) ; I am weary with holding in: I will 
pour it out upon the children abroad, and 
upon the assembly of young men together." 2 
The working out and adjustment of these 
karmic forces must take place at the close of 
each Race, and in a lesser degree at the close 
of each sub-race. This adjustment precipi- 
tates the great race wars which are followed 
by the cataclysms which mark the close of 
sub-races and Races; for every particle of 
matter composing the Race-continents, as 
well as every particle in the body of individ- 
ual man, must have its own individual bal- 
ancing, purification, readjustment and ulti- 
mate redemption. 

The last great Armageddon occurred just 
before the sinking of the continent of Atlan- 
tis, at the close of the cycle of the Fourth 
Great Race (Atlantean). u This hints at the 
struggle between the 'Sons of God' and the 
Sons of the Dark Wisdom — our forefathers; 
or the Atlantean and the Aryan Adepts. The 

mid, vi, 11. 

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whole history of that period is allegorized in DMm 
the Ramayana which is the mystic narrative Rtikn 
in epic form of the struggle between Rama 
• — the first king of the Divine Dynasty of the 
early Aryans — and Ravana, the symbolic per- 
sonification of the Atlantean (Lanka) Race. 
The former were the incarnations of the 
Solar Gods; the latter, of the Lunar Devas. 
This was the great battle between Good and 
Evil, between White and Black Magic, for 
the supremacy of the divine forces over the 
lower terrestrial, or cosmic powers." 3 The 
sinking of the continent of Atlantis which 
followed was the balancing of the accounts 
of the entire Fourth Race. It was a neces- 
sary preparation (through the purifying ac- 
tion of the salt water) of the continent for a 
future Race. The survivors, those who were 
sufficiently spiritualized, awakened and obe- 
dient to follow their Divine Rulers, were 
picked out, separated and trained by the 
Masters long before the sinking of the con- 
tinent, and became the seed of the present 
Fifth (Aryan) Great Race, just as some are 
now being chosen and trained for a similar 
function. 



3 The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, Vol. II, 520. 

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Ere this present Fifth Race ends — and we 
are now just entering upon its sixth sub-race 4 
— -a similar adjustment of its Race Karma 
must take place. The great European war 
now raging offers a focal point through which 
the Karma of the fifth sub-race of the Aryans 
can be precipitated on the physical-plane and 
adjusted. Europe is the focal point because it 
was in Europe that the greater part of that 
Karma was engendered, i.e., through the 
many bitter political wars which drenched its 
soil in blood; through the sectarian wars car- 
ried on in the name of the Church, but which 
perverted religion and made priest-craft a 
curse; and through the intolerance, selfish- 
ness, mental and spiritual blindness of the re- 
ligious leaders which manifesetd in the men- 
tal war which was finally culminated in the 
most inhuman persecutions the civilizied 
world has ever known — the Inquisition. The 
present war is the beginning of the period 
which will mark the close of the Fifth Great 
Race. While this present conflict seems 
wholly evil, it is not entirely so for the Race; 
for not only will the old karmic debts be ad- 
justed and thus allow the contending nations 
to enter into a federation in which the inde- 

4 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapter XVII. 

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pendence of each nation or people will be 
guaranteed — as brothers, some older, some g*^ 
younger, in the great social family — and thus 
will prevent war for a long period and enter 
the new era with a clean slate as it were, but 
the war is developing in the Race as a whole, 
an enormous amount of the feminine quali- 
ties — love, compassion, sympathy, devotion, 
unselfishness and service — so necessary as the 
Race enters the Aquarian or Woman's Age, 
the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens. 

Among the contending nations the Eng- 
lish, French and Germans have reached the 
zenith of their cycles as nations and hence 
must be tested ere they can enter the new 
cycle. They are classed among the nations 
which represent the highest stage of civil- 
ization, culture, intellectual and material ad- 
vance on the planet today, but they must now 
prove the truth of their proud boasts; must 
prove whether their civilization and culture 
is the result of true spiritual growth or 
whether it is the mere veneer of intellectual 
and material attainment without correspond- 
ing spiritual unfoldment. Has their so- 
called advance in civilization brought their J 
people into a greater realization of the spir- 

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Tests itual basis of all manifestation? Has it led 
them to strive for a more conscious commun- 



Civlliza* 

Hon \ 



ion with the realms of spiritual consciousness 
as a daily personal experience? Has it 
taught them the folly of seeking to satisfy 
the ceaseless craving of the Soul for union 
with its Source, through the gratification of 
the senses or the possession of material 
things? Has their scientific study of the 
wonderful co-operation and brotherhood ex- 
isting among the cells, tissues and organs of 
every unit of organic life led them — if for 
no other reason, as a matter of efficiency — to 
follow the same law and express greater tol- 
erance, co-operation and brotherhood among 
themselves as members of the body of hu- 
manity? Have their studies led them to 
recognize the true position of woman as the 
Priestess of the household, to complement 
and co-worker with man; the spiritual head 
of the family, as man is the material; the 
inspirer and leader in all spiritual, ethical 
and moral problems? In time of emergency, 
stress and strain, when there is scarcely time 
for thought, will the culture of these nations 
enable them instinctively to display more 
love, compassion, self-sacrifice and human- 

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ity, simply because man is man, than the less 
cultured nations would under similar condi- 
tions? Or will they relapse to the level of <££?, 
the uncultured animal man who fights solely 
for self? This is the test which their civil- 
ization must stand. And those nations 
which show most conclusively that these high- 
er qualities have been built into their national 
consciousness must be the ones to dominate 
and manifest these qualities more perfectly 
in the world's arena during the coming cycle 
of the new age. The Slavonic nations, on the 
other hand, have not reached the zenith of 
their evolution, but are on the upward arc. 
Hence the more primitive qualities of their 
civilization may be used by the Great Law 
as instruments with which to accomplish the 
testing of the more advanced, and to make 
possible the inauguration of the new era. 

When the physical conflict is over a ter- 
rible mental revolt against all forms of re- 
straint, both in government and religion, will 
burst forth. It will be a period of extremes, 
extremes of individualism; a period when the * 
opposition against all systematized or organ- 
ized spiritual teachings, which is even now 
manifesting under various doctrines of relig- 

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ious and so-called "soul freedom," will find 
extreme expression. It will be a period both 
of extreme agnosticism and extreme individ- 
ualistic teaching, when any fantastic theory, 
even without a rational or philosophic basis, 
will find a hearing and followers. At the 
same time there will be a strong feeling upon 
the part of those who cling to the old con- 
ceptions that it is their duty to humanity to 
enforce the old religious ideals. Hence all 
churches, orders, movements and societies 
professing a spiritual basis will on the one 
hand have radicals whose extremes will bring 
them into disrepute, while on the other hand 
they will have those who will laugh at, rid- 
icule, discredit, oppose and persecute them. 
j And the same fire that has manifested as 
physical war will again sweep the world as a 
mental, spiritual and psychic conflict. It will 
be a time when all spiritual movements will 
be under a cloud, when spiritually "The 
brother shall betray the brother to death, 
and the father the son: and children shall 
rise against their parents, and shall cause 
them to be put to death." Therefore it will 
be a period of great testing; a period when 
every heart who has realized the reality of 

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the spiritual world and its forces must be 
securely grounded in the philosophy, stand ££^ 
firmly and unshakably for his or her beliefs, 
even though to do so involves ridicule, perse- 
cution and mental suffering. For every sys- j 
tern of teaching not founded upon the rock \ 
of divine reality and expressed in terms suit- 
able to the new conditions must pass away I 
to make room for the new. 

These conditions will be so terrible that 
they will last only a very few years, perhaps 
only two or three, for we are told that "for 
the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 
. . . And except those days should be 
shortened, there should be no flesh saved." 
The only way that the "elect" can prove 
themselves is by their sincerity, their stead- 
fastness, their trust and their determination 
to hold calmly to their spiritual ideals and to 
rely absolutely upon their divine, inner guid- 
ance. Words and arguments will be of no 
avail. The truth of their beliefs can he 
\ proved only by living them. All such will be 
like bright and shining lights in this period of 
mental and spiritual darkness, or more cor- 
rectly, blindness. It will be at the close of 
this period that the long expected Great 

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Teacher, the Avatar, will appear to reassure 
distracted humanity of the spiritual basis of 
all manifestation and to outline a new and 
higher conception of the spiritual life and its 
forms of expression. 

The battles of the physical world are 
fought on the physical-plane with physical 
Psychk weapons, but the battle of Armageddon must 
^ eaA \ be fought first upon the astral-plane with 
1 thoughts and psychic forces for weapons, the 
conflict now raging being but a pouring out 
of the evil and a gathering together of the 
forces of Good for the final battle on the 
higher planes. This battle has already be- 
gun, and it will continue throughout the sixth 
sub-race of this Aryan Great Race. Its prog- 
ress will be marked by tremendous disasters 
precipitated upon the physical-plane — wars, 
earthquakes, cyclones, volcanic eruptions and 
meteoric showers, floods, etc. — of more or 
less severity until the final battle and catacl- 
ysm in which the battlefield and the defeated 
army will be swallowed up and a new and 
purified land (the old Lemurian continent in 
the Pacific) shall rise out of the waters for 
the new Sixth Great Race to inhabit. 
/ The victors will remain as the seed of 

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the new race to people the new land. Just 
as these changes must take place for the ] 
planet, so must they take place in humanity 
through bloody wars, strikes and other con- 
flicts which will continue until all conflicts of 
man with man, and man's resistance to the 
Divine are swallowed up, and out of the 
waters of affliction there shall arise a new 
and greater humanity with true Brotherhood, 
Love, Peace and Harmony as its watchword. 
The time has now come when the accumul- 
ated mass of old Race Karma must be defi- 
nitely met and conquered ere humanity can 
enter upon the new sub-race, its next step in 
evolution. This, in a measure, is to the 
world what the Dweller on the Threshold is 
to the neophyte. And as with the neophyte 
before each important step is taken, it must 
be met and conquered. For just as the neo- 
phyte, through his evil thoughts, words and 
acts, has created an entitized form of evil — 
his indiviual Dweller 5 — so the planet has 
been pouring out its evils throughout its long 
cycle until they have become entitized as a 
u dark planet" with a living Ruler, the Anti- 
Christ. This planet may be called the Dwel- 



Planet's 
Dweller 



B See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, p. 64. 

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ler on the Threshold for humanity as a 
whole. 

The astronomers of Harvard University 
Confirm* have already discovered the influence of this 
1 dark planet — the Destroyer — which, if en- 
countered, means the destruction of the 
earth. Astronomer Serviss is quoted as say- 
ing that the earth and this whole solar system 
has gone astray and is trailing off away from 
its path around the great sun Alcyone in the 
Pleiades, toward the constellation Andro- 
meda in the Milky Way. These are but as- 
tronomical confirmations of the fact that we 
have entered the sixth sub-race, and that the 
hosts are rapidly gathering for the great Bat- 
tle of Armageddon. The earth is being 
driven through space in this new direction by 
the character of the thought-force of its col- 
lective humanity. But there is another planet, 
not yet recognized by science, which is a 
bright planet — the Redeemer — to be drawn 
into whose aura means salvation. These two 
planets may be called the camping grounds 
of the opposing forces, with the earth be- 
tween as the battle ground. But back of and 
within the outer cause, as the propelling 
power, will be the preponderating force of 

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good or evil thoughts engendered by human- 
ity. Therefore the real battle is to be fought o*frfa 
on the mental and astral-planes with thoughts % fyeme 
and psychic forces, good and bad, as weap- 
ons, and later will be reflected and precipi- 
tated on and in the earth. Hence all ad- 
vanced students, who consciously determine 
to make Love, Brotherhood, Purity and 
Peace their standards of life, enroll them- 
selves among the Hosts of the Lord and be- 
come Soldiers of the Cross. 

The Dragon symbolizes the synthesis of 
the world's perverted thoughts of sex and is 
commonly called the Devil. The three un- 
clean spirits like frogs which come from his 
mouth symbolize the three great expressions 
of the dragon-force, i.e., (a) sex impurity, 
suppression and perversion; (b) the creation 
of disease by such perversion, and (c) insan- 
ity or psychic obsession resulting from astral 
entities — or individual Dwellers on the Thres- 
hold — utilizing sensitive but negative victims 
through which they can satisfy their desires. 
The Beast is a symbol of Mammon or greed, 
expressing through the Money Power. The 
three evil spirits issuing from his mouth com- 
prise all the miseries and sorrows that arise 

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ZBeast 



/as a result of greed and injustice in their 
®*j gon \ threefold expressions of (a) war, prosecuted 
for territorial or commercial expansion, stim- V 
ulated and financed by the Money Power; 
(b) poverty, resulting from the unjust distri- 
bution of wealth, which distribution is con-^" 
trolled by the Money Power; and (c) all the 
train of evils resulting from bodily and indus- 
trial slavery. The False Prophet symbolizes 
all the false teachings which have been given 
out in the name of religion or spiritual teach- 
ing to justify and uphold both the Dragon 
and the Beast, but which have misled human- 
ity and held it back from manifesting 
Peace, Love and Brotherhood. From his 
mouth come forth the three frogs of (a) 
materialized religion, priestcraft and tem- 
poral power; (b) spiritual pride ; and (c) in- 
tolerance and its handmaiden, religious per- 
secution. This pride, intolerance and perse- 
cution did not die out with the Inquisition, 
but is still active today. It is now directed 
not so much against the physical bodies of 
its victims, but is carried on mentally and 
psychicly through the slanders, scandal and 
malicious misrepresentation carried on 
through various publications and commonly 

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called "brutal journalism." All these fac- 
tors, as the passage quoted plainly tells us, 
work for the King of this World, King De- 
sire and his allies and their cohorts. 

One of the first rules impressed upon the 
spiritual aspirant is that to attain at-one-ment *»« 
by the path of Love and Purity he must lay F 
down all carnal weapons. Jesus emphasized 
this rule when He said to Peter: "Put up 
again thy sword into his place: for all they 
that take the sword shall perish with the 
sword." 6 Yet we find the disciple spoken of 
as a Soldier of the Cross and commanded to 
array himself as a fighting factor in the 
world's salvation. Jesus also said: "I came 
not to send peace, but a sword." 7 Behind this 
paradox lies a great truth, the understanding 
of which is necessary ere any decided con- 
scious advance in the spiritual unfoldment of 
either the individual or the Race can take 
place, i.e., the conquering must take place on y 
the plane where the causes are engendered, 
and the weapons are Love and Purity. This 
means that thoughts of Love and Purity must 
be sent out in such numbers and with such 
positive spiritual force that they will sur- 

Watth. XXVI, 52. 
Watth. X, 34. 

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round and transmute the impure and antag- 
How to onistic forces, following the same tactics as 
flr lthe white warrior cells (phagocytes) of the 
J blood use in meeting an invasion of disease 
germs, i.e., not deny the evil, but surroundX 
and transmute the evil into Good. The Voice 
of the Silence tells us: u Strive with thy 
thoughts unclean before they overpower 
thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou 
sparest them and they take root and grow, 
know well these thoughts will overpower and 
kill thee." 8 If you find them persistently 
clinging to you, send out an army of pure and 
loving thoughts to absorb and transmute 
them. Science recognizes the fact that, dur- 
ing epidemics of disease, the mere thinking 
and talking about the disease will make nega- 
tive persons more susceptible to it. This 
does not mean that all disease is merely men- 
tal, but that by negative thoughts you open 
a door in your aura through which the dis- 
ease can enter. This effect is still more evi- 
dent in moral epidemics and in the epidemics 
of war-thoughts which sweep over nations. 
Therefore the spiritual aspirant should lay 
down all carnal weapons or he will surely 



8 Blavatsky, p. 12. 

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perish by the sword, overcome by the hosts 
of evil thought-forms he has drawn into his 
aura. 

Applied to warring nations this principle 
indicates that we should not waste time and^^ 
force in specifically directing our prayers and "^ 
thought forces to the European nations that 
they shall cease fighting, for they are acting 
under the tremendous urge of long pent-up 
karmic readjustment which must take place, 
and cannot respond to our prayers until after 
that karmic readjustment has been worked 
out. There is only one efficacious way to 
pray for peace and that is to pray that the 
Will of the Father shall be done on earth, 
even as it is in heaven. That Divine Will is 
Love, first, last and all the time. And having 
prayed thus believe and know that this 
Divine Love is back of the entire world of 
manifestation, and that it is ever working to 
bring about the reign of universal Love, 
Peace and Harmony, even though it be nec- 
essary to sweep from its path all that opposes 
that reign. The terrible conditions which pre- 
vail today are not the Will of the Father, but 
are the creations of man; the result of his x 
resistance and opposition to the Divine Will; 

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1+ f«te*~ S*mM Tu*e. 

jr u/is ^ e creat ions °f unbrotherliness, selfishness 
</tfe and greed, not altogether on the part of 
Sacrifice those instrumental in precipitating or now 
participating in the present conflict, but the 
accumulation of selfishness and greed of the 
Race, all of which must come up for adjust- 
ment now at the close of the cycle of the fifth 
sub-race or the end of the old dispensation, 
just as the rash must come out in measles, 
scarlet fever, etc., ere the real healing can 
begin. Therefore while you pray for the 
greater Peace, know that that Peace must 
first come in the hearts of the people of all 
the nations involved and of the whole world. 
Try not to think of individuals except in 
compassion, knowing that the Great Law will 
adjust their conditions in its own good time. 
Those who are dying for their ideals, even 
though those ideals be but of local patriot- 
ism and loyalty to an earthly ruler, are in a 
measure redeemers for the Race; for they 
are dying that the Race may be purged from 
the war-thought, the war-ideal and the curse 
of militarism. Hence in the next incarnation 
they will receive the just reward for their 
sacrifice. By their suffering and dying they 
have brought the world to a greater realiza- 

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j 



tion of the utter folly and needlessness of 
war if the Divine Will were followed. By 
their sacrifice they have wiped out much of 
the individual and racial Karma and will 
receive their compensation by being enabled 
to incarnate the next time under far more ad- 
vanced conditions of civilization than they 
could have experienced had they remained a 
few years longer in the present life. Send 
your forces of Love, Peace and Brotherhood 
into the higher realms where they will aggre- 
gate into a mighty force which shall swallow 
up all future thoughts of national selfishness 
and aggrandizement and be a powerful fac- 
tor in forming a federation of European na- 
tions on the grounds of common humanity 
and brotherhood which shall make it impos- 
sible for the ambitions or passions of a few 
to plunge nations into bloody and need- 
less conflicts, and which shall be an important 
factor in preparing for the coming of the 
Avatar. 

All persons who are sensitive have real- 
ized for some time that there is a terrible 
commotion in the mental and astral worlds 
which is now intensified by the physical con- 
flict going on in Europe and also by the 

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Compen- 
sation 



thousands of Souls suddenly thrown out of 
l ? ntal incarnation carrying with them all the excite- 
Unresi ment, antagonism and hatred which animated 
them as they fought. This composite force 
is like a tension or steady pressure upon all 
humanity tending to make all persons more 
irritable and excited. Therefore it is the 
duty of every advanced student to take spe- 
cial pains to see that he does not make an 
opening in his aura through which such 
forces can manifest by giving way to impa- 
tience, irritation and emotion or to partisan- 
ship and race antagonism. Instead he should 
consciously strive to make himself a center 
from and through which the constructive 
forces of Peace, Harmony, Love and Broth- 
erhood can radiate in his family and imme- 
diate environment and on out into all the 
world. 

Arrayed against the hosts of evil stand the 
thought-creations of Love, Harmony and 
Purity and upliftment of the Race sent out in 
a steady stream by the Lodge of Masters and 
by all Great Teachers since the world began, 
as well as by all who have been able to think 
vitalized thoughts of Love and Purity, Har- 
mony and Brotherhood. All humanity have 

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added and are still adding their quota to one 
side or the other. It is the destiny of the 
fifth sub-race to see the beginning of this Lord 
great and decisive battle between Good and 
evil or, to be more explicit, between Purity 
and impurity. Hence it is time that all who 
desire the salvation of the Race and the 
planet should awaken to the grave conditions 
we have outlined herein, and determinately 
array themselves on the side of Good by 
sending their individual, pure and vital love- 
force to swell the Hosts of the Lord. For 
you cannot say a loving word or do a loving 
deed, even to an animal, without having a 
loving thought behind it. And every loving 
and peaceful thought adds strength to the 
Army of the Good. As the Christ says: "In 
as much as ye have done it unto one of the 
least of these my brethren, ye have done it 



unto me." 



The pure Hosts of the Lord are mustered 
in serried ranks according to natural law and 
order, while the forces of evil, being a per- 
version of nature and abnormal, are not or- 
ganized. A well known principle of warfare 
is that a small but well organized army can 
overcome a much larger force that is unor- 

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ganized. And as evil and impure forces are 
sent out by haphazard impulse they may be 
compared to an unorganized mob, while 
thoughts of Good, because they require will 
and effort, are consciously created, and can 
be gathered together by the Masters and 
formed into a well drilled, well disciplined 
and well officered army, always in good fight- 
ing condition. Good is stronger than evil be- 
cause it is constructive and works in harmony 
with the Great Law. 

The Masters of the Great White Lodge, 
altho small in numbers as compared with the 
multitudes of humanity, are, nevertheless, 
able to engender and consciously use a far 
greater degree of creative force on the side 
of Purity, Peace, Love and Brotherhood. 
But even They must work with the Law as 
Karma and may not forcibly prevent a Race 
or sub-race from experiencing its karmic ret- 
ribution and readjustment. But Their ef- 
forts, being consciously directed and wisely 
applied, weigh heavily in the scale. They do 
not act on the physical-plane however, except 
through Their disciples and those who re- 
spond to Their inspiring currents of force. 
Hence Their great need today of those who 

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will consciously make themselves centers of 
Peace, Purity, Harmony and Love and be 
more or less conscious instruments through ^ ecome 
which They can work. They are the di- a 
recting force, comparable to the officers of Helper 
an army, but the disciples must consciously 
become willing volunteers who shall compose 
the great body of fighting units which the 
Masters shall train and direct. Therefore, 
instead of devoting all your efforts toward 
unfolding your faculties and developing your 
personality, set to work earnestly and con- 
sciously create warriors for the Army of the 
Lord to the end that not only the Race but 
the planet itself, shall be saved from destruc- 
tion. 

(Written May, 1909. Revised Sept. 30, 1914.) 




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Letters from the Teacher 

By the Same Authors 

"Among the many occult volumes before the public 
. . . I know of none more useful and admirable than 
the work now before me." W. J. Colville 

"Many biblical and other problems are handled clearly 
and convincingly, at the same time leaving all students 
in full mental liberty. Mystic Light Library Bulletin 

"Another interesting contribution to the department of 
occult science. ,, Portland Oregonian 

"The letters of advice, of which this book is nearly full, 
bear every mark of culture, of sincerity, and of a lofty 
thought." San Francisco Argonaut 

"The book is pervaded with the spirit of loving service. 
Every question receives a clear and careful answer which 
must have satisfied the enquirer." American Theosophist 

"There is no subject in the book that is not treated in 
a manner so interesting that it is hard to lay it down, but 
when the chapter on THE SEX PROBLEM is reached 
there is found some strong food for a strong man with a 
strong mind. The tone of the whole subject is Purity." 

Edwards Paul Jones 

"Its warnings against the dangers of psychism, and its 
frank and rational discussion of the sex question . . . 
are to be commended. Editor O. E. S. Critic 

"Every question receives a clear and careful answer." 

The American Theosophist 

"The beautiful truths expressed in beautiful diction 

cannot help but appeal to the soul which is seeking the 

higher things of life." Unity 

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